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It’s December, and all around the world people are getting ready to celebrate Christmas. Sometimes it’s easy for people in the English-speaking world to think that our version of Christmas is universal, but that’s far from the case. Even…

We recently honored D-Day and it brought to mind the life of my father-in-law, who was on the run from the Nazis and eventually captured by them. His name was Thomas Alfred Boyd Parselle (known as Tabs), and he was a Royal Air Force…

WARNING - this episode of Sexy Beasts is not for kids or people who don’t like chicken/breasts. I’m assuming you don’t let kids listen to us anyway cause we are very smutty but this episode is served with an extra dollop of smut with a side…

What Am Germany? When talking about Germany, often the subject turns to that big bad thing that happened with all those countries and that horrible monster of a man. So, rather than threading that tired ground, Steve and Richie of What Am…

Content warning: this column discusses suicide and episodes of suicidal ideation in the life of Hans Fallada. Societies don’t go wrong all at once. Things get worse by degrees, and it can slowly creep up on you. You convince yourself…

Every general needs his army and Santa’s Christmas army is comprised of miniature magical folks churning out billions of toys endlessly. They work their magic fingers down to nubs so some snot-nosed kid in Texas can get the latest fad toy.…

Have you been been a good boy or girl this year? If you have, congratulations Santa will shower you with gifts and you’ll have a jolly old Christmas. But If you've been naughty he will send his creepy, freaky mate, the Krampus, over to your…

When I was about 17 I drank two bottles of sáke, puked and got shouted at by my Ma. If I told this story to today's beast it would laugh in my face and call me a lightweight. We are talking about the long-haired sesh-monkey known as the…

On today’s Sexy Beasts we are discussing the Tatzlewurm! The cat-faced serpent that slithers its way around the Alps. Jago gets confused about measurement and Tony gets sexually frustrated. We both grow as people and discover that the true…

Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff was born in London in 1862. His father Albrecht was a Prussian Count and experienced diplomat who had just spent seven years as the Prussian ambassador to Great Britain. Shortly before Johann’s birth he had…